Orion Empire and Free Will

[jafar]

You know in anime how heroes become villains and villains become redeemed?

Well it seems the STS universe is all about surviving, competing and fighting.
Among the common occurrence within the STS world is to demonize others, especially other competing STSes. to justify the 'attack', 'conquering', 'destruction' towards others. Without realization that by doing such, the self, the 'me' or the 'us' is actually the demon. Or at least among the demon.

Anime and movie doesn't give a good picture of the above scenario, as it's commonly depicting a 'character' as a hero (labeled as the good) and any enemies that the hero is facing as the 'demon'. When one of the demonized enemy switch side to fight alongside the hero, then they're labeled as 'redeemed'.

While in reality both the hero and it's enemies are actually STS groups.
The 'redeemed enemy' merely switch side from one STS group to another STS group.
And they're all still fighting one another..

BlackDragon mentioned "fundamentalist Christian", which is a good case study / example for the above behavior.
Fundamentalist Christian (or any other fundamentalist group such as fundamentalist Muslim, Jews or Atheist) always need the figure of "Satan" to be demonized and to fight with.
And as one can also clearly see within the Fundamentalist group they also fought each others.